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The Exterminating Angel
Why this pick
Buñuel turns an elegant dinner party into a deadpan, increasingly irrational social trap, with the same precise bourgeois satire and dream logic.
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MOVIE1972 1h 41m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film begins with a bourgeoisie couple, the Thévenots (Frankeur and Seyrig), accompanying M. Thévenot's colleague Rafael Acosta (Rey) and Mme. Thévenot's sister Florence (Ogier), to the house of the Sénéchals, the hosts of a dinner party. Once they arrive, Alice Sénéchal (Audran) is surprised to see them and explains that she expected them the following evening and has no dinner prepared. The would-be guests then invite Mme Sénéchal to join them for dinner at a nearby inn. Finally arriving at the inn, the party finds it locked. They knock and are invited in, despite the waitress' seeming reluctance and an ominous mention of "new management". Inside, there are the sounds of wailing voices from an adjoining room but no diners (despite disconcertingly cheap prices). It is learned that the manager died a few hours earlier, and his former employees are holding vigil over his corpse, awaiting the coroner. The party hurriedly leaves.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Fernando Rey
Don Rafael
François Maistre
Delecluze
Maxence Mailfort
Traum-Sergeant
Milena Vukotic
Ines
Bernard Musson
Serveur
Ellen Bahl
Bulle Ogier
Florence
Stéphane Audran
Alice Sénéchal